Eduard Alarcon

Ph.D. from Technical University of Catalunya (UPC BarcelonaTech) in 1999 (with National award), where he is Associate Professor since 2000. In 2003, 2006 and 2009 he was visiting professor at the COPEC center, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, and in 2011 he was Visiting Professor at the School of ICT/Integrated Devices and Circuits, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm, Sweden. Current research interests include the areas of Analog and Mixed-Signal IC design for signal and power processing, on-chip energy management circuits, energy harvesting and wireless energy transfer, in which he has co-authored more than 180 technical papers, 4 books, 4 book chapters and has 4 patents. He serves or has served as Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems (both parts I and II), Journal of Low Power Electronics (JOLPE), in the Senior Editorial Board of the IEEE Journal on Emerging and Selected Topics in Circuits and Systems (2010-), technical program co-chair of the ECCTD7 and IEEE LASCAS 2013 and track chair for IEEE ISCAS'07, IEEE ISCAS'08, IEEE MWSCAS'07, ECCTD'09, IEEE MWSCAS09, IEEE ICECS'2009, ESSCIRC 2010, PwrSOC 2010. He was recipient of the Best Paper Award at the 1998 IEEE MWSCAS, invited co-editor of a Kluwer's AICSP special issue, co-organizer of 2 special sessions at IEEE ISCAS'03 and ISCAS'06 and a tutorial at IEEE ISCAS09 and ESSCIRC 2011. He has given 24 invited plenary lectures, tutorials and invited talks and was appointed by the IEEE CAS society as distinguished lecturer for 2009-2010.

Klaas Bult

M.S. and Ph.D. degree Electrical Engineering, Twente University, Enschede, The Netherlands. From 1988-1994 he was with Philips Research Laboratories, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, working on basic analog CMOS circuits, mainly for consumer applications in Audio and Video. From 1993-1994 he was also a part-time professor at Twente University, Enschede, The Netherlands. From 1994-1996 he was an Associate Professor at UCLA, teaching and researching RF CMOS circuits and Data Converters. In the same period he was also a consultant at Broadcom Corporation in Irvine, CA. Since 1996 he is with Broadcom Corporation on a full-time basis. In 1996 he started the Broadcom Analog and RF Microelectronics group in Irvine, CA, responsible for the analog part of all mixed-signal chips for application in digital communication systems. In 1999 he started the Broadcom Design Center in Bunnik, The Netherlands. Klaas Bult was the recipient of the Lewis Winner Award for outstanding conference paper of ISSCC 1990, 1992 and 1997.

Herman Casier

Received his MS in electronics from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in 1970. As assistant at the university, he worked on bipolar technology, device modeling and mixed signal design in bipolar and MOS technologies. From 1977 to 1980, he joined BARCO N.V. as senior designer and later became responsible for new technologies. In 1980, he was one of the founders of the design house INCIR in Belgium. From 1983 to 2002, he was with Alcatel Microelectronics, where he first held several design and R&D management positions and later became engineering officer. Until 1997 he was involved in high voltage and sensor interfaces in CMOS and BiCMOS and in the definition of high voltage  technologies for automotive and industrial applications. From 1997 to 2002 he researched high speed wireline interfaces, high accuracy telecom circuits and the analog front-end of ADSL. Since 2002 and untill his retirement in 2007, he was an engineering fellow at AMI Semiconductor in Oudenaarde, Belgium. His current research interests are technology limitations, high voltage, smart power circuits, high accuracy sensor interfaces, ESD, EMC and other interference protections in CMOS and DMOS technologies.

Rinaldo Castello

Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley. 1983-84. Visiting Professor at the University of Genova. From 1984 to 1986, Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of California, Berkeley. Since 2000 Full Professor with the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy, and a consultant with Marvell Technology, Pavia, Italy. Main interest in circuit design of telecommunications and analog/digital interfaces.

John Cowles

Received his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the University of Michigan in 1994. He joined TRW in Redondo Beach, Ca. as a senior member of the technical staff developing advanced GaAs and InP bipolar technologies. In 1998 he joined Analog Devices - Northwest Labs in Beaverton OR working in Barrie Gilbert's team on the design of high performance RF, analog and mixed-mode ICs in Si/SiGe bipolar and BiCMOS technologies. In 2004 he became the design manager for the Northwest Labs.

Christian Enz

Christian Enz, PhD, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), 1989. He joined the Swiss Center for Electronics and Microtechnology (CSEM) in Neuchâtel, Switzerland, where he is VP heading the Microelectronics Division. Since 1999, he is also Professor at EPFL, where he is lecturing and supervising students in the field of analog and RF IC design. Prior to joining the CSEM, he was Principal Senior Engineer at Conexant (formerly Rockwell Semiconductor Systems), Newport Beach, CA, where is was responsible for the modeling and characterization of MOS transistors for RF applications. His technical interests and expertise are in the field of wireless sensor networks, very low-power and low-voltage analog and RF IC design and semiconductor device modeling. He is one of the developers of the EKV MOS transistor model and author of the book "Charge-Based MOS Transistor Modeling - The EKV Model for Low-Power and RF IC Design" (Wiley, 2006). He is the author and co-author of more than 150 scientific papers and has contributed to numerous conference organizing committees, presentations and advanced engineering courses.

Viktor Fischer

Received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Technical University of Kosice in Slovakia. From 1981 to 1991 he held an Assistant Professor position at the Department of Electronics of the Technical University of Kosice. From 1991 to 2006 he was a part-time invited professor at the University of Saint-Etienne, France. From 1999 to 2006 he was also a consultant with Micronic Slovakia, oriented in hardware data security systems. From 2006 he is a full-time Professor at the University of Saint-Etienne. His research interests include cryptographic engineering, secure embedded systems, cryptographic processors and especially true random number generators embedded in logic devices.

Ian Galton

Received his Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the California Institute of Technology in 1992, and is presently a Professor of electrical engineering at the University of California, San Diego where he teaches and conducts research in the field of mixed-signal integrated circuits and systems for communications. He was formerly with UC Irvine, the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Acuson, and Mead Data Central. His published research involves the development of key communication system blocks such as data converters, frequency synthesizers, and clock recovery systems. In addition to his academic research, he regularly consults at several communications and semiconductor companies, and has served on a corporate Board of Directors and several Technical Advisory Boards.

Barrie Gilbert

ADI Fellow, IEEE Life Fellow, Member National Academy of Engineering, Director ADI NW Labs, with some 60 years of experience in electronics and in IC design ICs since the mid-1960's. He has been issued over 100 patents worldwide. Dr. Gilbert has authored numerous papers in the professional literature and is co-author or editor of several books. For work on merged logic (later called I2L) he received the IEEE Outstanding Achievement Award (1970); for "Contributions to Nonlinear Signal Processing" the IEEE SSCC Outstanding Development Award (1986). He was "Oregon Researcher of the Year" in 1990 and received the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Award in 1992, the ISSCC Outstanding Paper Award on 5 occasions, and the ESSCIRC Best Paper Award twice. He also has several awards from Industry, and was presented with an Honorary Doctorate of Engineering from Oregon State University in 1997.

Kush Gulati

Received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge in 2001. His doctoral research was directed towards the design of a low-power reconfigurable analog-to-digital converter. From 1993 to 1995, he worked on circuit techniques for minimizing susceptibility of DRAMs to alpha particles and cosmic ions. Between 2001 and 2005, he was with Engim, Inc. a wireless communications company he co-founded; He led their mixed-signal/analog group developing high-speed and high-resolution data converters. From 2005-2007, he was with Bitwave Semiconductor where he directed analog and mixed-signal development for software defined radio architectures. In 2007, he founded Cambridge Analog Technologies where he is currently President and CEO. Dr. Gulati has numerous publications and patents in the area of circuit design. While at MIT, Dr. Gulati received the Maxim Integrated Products Fellowship and the Analog Devices Outstanding Student Designer Award. He has served on Technical Program Committee's of conferences such as the VLSI Circuits Symposium and the SDR Technical Conference.

Ali Hajimiri

Professor of electrical engineering at California Institute of Technology (Caltech). Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the Stanford University. He has been with Philips Semiconductors, Sun Microelectronics, and Lucent Technologies in the past. He joined the Faculty of the California Institute of Technology in 1998, where his research interests are high-speed and RF integrated circuits. He is a co-author of The Design of Low Noise Oscillators. He is an associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems (TCAS) and a member of the Technical Program Committees of the International Conference on Computer Aided Design (ICCAD). He has also served as Guest Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques. Dr. Hajimiri was the Gold medal winner of National Physics Competition and the Bronze Medal winner of the 21st International Physics Olympiad. He was a co-recipient of the International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) Jack KKilby Outstanding Paper Award and the winner of the IBM faculty partnership award.

Pavan K. Hanumolu

Pavan Kumar Hanumolu received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Oregon State University in 2006. Currently, he is an Assistant Professor in the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the same University. His research interests include high-speed I/O interfaces, digital techniques to compensate for analog circuit imperfections, time-based signal processing, and power-management circuits.

Vadim Ivanov

MSEE 1980, Ph.D. 1987, both in the USSR. He designed electronic systems and ASICs for naval navigation equipment from 1980 to 1991 in St.Petrsburg, Russia and mixed signal ASICs for sensors, GPS/GLONASS receivers and for motor control between 1991 and 1995. He joined Burr Brown (presently Texas Instruments, Tucson) in 1996 as a senior member of technical staff, where has been involved with the design of the operational, instrumentation, power amplifiers, references and switching and linear voltage regulators. Has 39 US patents, with more pending, on analog circuit techniques and authored 30 technical papers and three books: Power Integrated Amplifiers (Leningrad, Rumb, 1987), Analog system design using ASICs (Leningrad, Rumb, 1988), both in Russian, and Operational Amplifier Speed and Accuracy Improvement, Kluwer, 2004. His nanopower OpAmp was voted IC of year 2007 in EETimes and EDN polls.

Marc Joye

Received his Ph.D. degree in applied sciences (cryptography) from the Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium, in 1997. In 1998 and 1999, he was a post-doctoral fellow of the National Science Council, Republic of China. From 1999 to 2006, he was with the Card Security Group, Gemplus (now Gemalto), France. Since August 2006, has been with the Security Labs, Technicolor, France. His research interests include cryptography, computer security, computational number theory, and smart-card implementations. He is author and co-author of more than 100 scientific papers and holds several patents. He served in numerous program committees and was program chair of CT-RSA 2003, CHES 2004, ACM-DRM 2008, FDTC 2010, ACM-DRM 2010, Pairing 2010, and InfoSecHiComNet 2011. He is a member of the IACR and co-founder of the UCL Crypto Group.

Maher Kayal

Maher Kayal, Ph. D., Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), 1989. He has been with the Electronics Laboratories of the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL, Switzerland) since 1990, where he is currently a professor and director of the "Energy Management and Sustainability" section. He has published many scientific papers, coauthor of three text books dedicated to mixed-mode CMOS design and he holds seven patents. His technical contributions have been in the area of analog and Mixed-signal circuits design including highly linear and tunable sensors microsystems, signal processing and green energy management. M. Kayal is a recipient of the Swiss Ascom award in 1990 for the best work in telecommunication fields; He is Author and co-author of the following paper award in: ED&TC conference in 1997, IEEE-AQTR in 2006, Mixdes conference in 2007 & 2009, Power tech conference in 2009, William M. Portoy Award at the Energy Conversion Conference 2009, the Swiss credit award for best teaching in 2009, Poland Section IEEE ED Chapter award in 2011.

Cetin K. Koc

Cetin Kaya Koc received his Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from University of California Santa Barbara in 1988. He was an Assistant Professor at University of Houston (1988-1992), Assistant, Associate and Full Professor with tenure at Oregon State University (1992-2007). He established Information Security Laboratory at Oregon State University, and graduated 14 Ph.D. students, 9 of who are currently professors. In September 2001, he received Oregon State University Research Award for Outstanding and Sustained Research Leadership. His research interests are in cryptographic engineering, side-channel attacks and countermeasures, hardware security, embedded cryptography and security, algorithms and architectures for arithmetic and finite fields. He is a co-founder of the Workshop on Cryptographic Hardware and embedded Systems (chesworkshop.org) in 1999 and was the program co-chair and proceedings editor from 1999 to 2003. He is now a permanent member of the steering committee of the CHES Workshop. Recently, he has also co-founded a new conference, International Workshop on the Arithmetic of Finite Fields (waifi.org), which is a forum of engineers and mathematicians interested in efficient software and hardware realizations of finite fields. He has co-authored one book, Cryptographic Algorithms on Reconfigurable Hardware, published by Springer. His second book, Cryptographic Engineering, is soon to be published by Springer. He has been an associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Computers and IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, and guest co-editor of two issues (April 2003 and November 2008) of IEEE Transactions on Computers on cryptographic and cryptanalytic hardware and embedded systems. He is an IEEE Fellow since 2007 for contributions to cryptographic engineering. Currently, Dr. Koc is a professor of computer science at City University of Istanbul, a visiting professor in the Department of Computer Science at University of California Santa Barbara, and the principal architect of CryptoCode, a California-based company specializing in cryptographic engineering research and development.

Lanny Lewyn

B.S. Eng. and M.S.E.E. California Institute of Technology; Ph.D. Stanford, 1984. Past work includes the circuit and physical design of a 1.2 mW 16b x36-channel ADC array currently used in the Hubble Space Telescope ACS camera that will also be used in the main IR camera of the next generation space telescope (JWST) in 2018. He is currently president of Lewyn Consulting Inc. (LCI) in Laguna Beach, CA and is a member of the technical advisory boards of the Snowbush-Gennum Physical Design Center, and the Tanner EDA Division of Tanner Research. His current work at LCI includes the circuit and physical design of a low-power, 12b 4GSPS CMOS ADC that can be easily ported to technology nodes from 180 to 28 nm for use as IP. Recent papers include "Is a New Paradigm for Nanoscale Analog CMOS Design Needed?" Proceedings of the IEEE, Jan. 2011; "Analog IC Design at the Edge: A new twist for Nanoscale Productivity," IEEE-SSCS DAC 2011; "A New Paradigm for Nanoscale Analog CMOS Design," Proc. CMOSET 2011; and Chapter 3 "Advanced Physical Design in Nanoscale CMOS," in Analog Circuit Design, Springer, 2011. He holds 29 patents in CMOS and bipolar circuits, and is a Life Senior Member of the IEEE.

John R. Long

Received the B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Calgary in 1984, and the M.Eng. and Ph.D. degrees in Electronics from Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada, in 1992 and 1996, respectively. He was employed for 10 years by Bell-Northern Research, involved in the design of ASICs for Gbit/s fibre-optic transmission systems, and from 1996 to 2001 as an Assistant and then Associate Professor at the University of Toronto in Canada. Since January 2002 he has been chair of the Electronics Research Laboratory at the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands. His current research interests include low-power and high frequency transceiver circuits for integrated wireless, and high-speed wireline data communications systems.

Kofi Makinwa

Professor at Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands. Before this, he was a research scientist at Philips Research Laboratories in Eindhoven, The Netherlands. He has served on the technical program committees of many conferences, including the ISSCC. He has (co)-authored over 150 technical papers and holds 15 U.S. patents in the area of precision analog circuits and sensor interfaces. For his Ph.D. thesis, he received the Simon Stevin Gezel award from the Dutch Technology Foundation. He is a co-recipient of best paper awards from the JSSC, ISSCC (4), ESSCIRC (2) and ISCAS. He is a Fellow and Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society and is a past Fellow of the Young Academy of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Frank Op't Eynde

Frank Op't Eynde received the EE degree and the Ph.D. degree from the Catholic University Leuven, respectively in 1986 and 1990. From 1990 till 1994, he was design project leader with "Alcatel Mietec" in Brussels. From 1994 till 1997, he was CTO of "Mixed Silicon Structures" (Roubaix, France) and member of the board of "Misil Design" (Rungis, France). From 1997 till 2001, he has been Development Manager for xDSL front-ends and for Wirelesscircuits at "Alcatel Microelectronics" (Brussels, Belgium). Later, he promoted to Corporate R&D Director. In 2002, he co-founded AsicAhead SRL, a Wireless Product Development company based in Bucharest, Romania and in Genk, Belgium. Since 2007, Dr. Op 't Eynde is self-employed.He has about 40 publications and thirteen patents in the field of analog and RF IC design.

Christof Paar

Christof Paar has the Chair for Embedded Security at Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany, and is Research Professor at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. From 1994 to 2001 he was professor at Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Massachusetts, where he headed the Cryptography and Information Security Labs. He co-founded, with Cetin Koc, the CHES (Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems) workshop series, the leading international event in cryptographic engineering. Christof's research interests cover fast software and hardware realizations of cryptography, physical security, penetration of real-world systems, trusted systems, and cryptanalytical hardware. He also works on real-world applications of embedded security, e.g., in cars, consumer devices, smart cards and RFID. He is co-founder of escrypt – Embedded Security Inc., a leading consultancy in applied security. Christof has over 80 peer-reviewed publications in embedded security and holds several patents. He has given invited talks at MIT, Yale, Stanford University, University of Illinois, IBM T.J. Watson Labs und Sun Labs and many other places. He has taught cryptography extensively in industry, including courses at GTE, NASA, Motorola Research, and Philips Research.

Marc Pastre

Marc Pastre is research and teaching associate at EPFL. He received his MSc degree in computer science and PhD degree in microelectronics from EPFL in 2000 and 2005 respectively. Besides his teaching activities in electronics and microelectronics, he is conducting research projects in the areas of high-performance sensor interfaces, low-power analog and mixed-signal circuits, digital enhancement of analog circuits, and CAD tools.

Marcel Pelgrom

Ph.D., Twente University of Technology, Enschede, 1988. In 1979, he joined Philips Research Labs, Eindhoven, the Netherlands, where he investigated the matching behavior of MOS devices, designed memories, A/D and D/A converters and other analog circuits. From 1989 to 1996, he was a team leader for research on high-speed A/D conversion and related subjects. From 1996 till 2003, he was department head of the Mixed-signal Circuits and Systems group of Philips Research Labs. He is a Philips Research Fellow and an NXP Research Fellow. He holds 28 US patents and has published 40 papers and book chapters and acts as a consulting professor in Stanford University, Palo Alto USA. The IEEE has appointed him as a Distinguished Lecturer.

Jan Rabaey

Ph.D. from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium, 1983. From 1983 till 1985, he was at the University of California, Berkeley as a Visiting Research Engineer. From 1985 till 1987, he was a research manager at IMEC, Belgium. In 1987, he joined the faculty of the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science department of the University of California, Berkeley, where he is now a professor. From 1999 until 2002, he was the Associate Chair of the EECS Dept in Berkeley. He is currently director of the Gigascale Systems Research Center (GSRC) and scientific co-director of the Berkeley Wireless Research Center (BWRC). He received numerous scientific awards, including the 1985 IEEE Transactions on Computer Aided Design Best Paper Award (Circuits and Systems Society), the 1989 Presidential Young Investigator award, the 1994 Signal Processing Society Senior Award, and the 2002 IEEE ISSCC Jack Raper Award. He is an IEEE Fellow.

Behzad Razavi

Behzad Razavi holds a PhD from Stanford and is Professor of Electrical Engineering at UCLA. He has published more than 150 papers and seven books and received numerous awards for his research, teaching, and authorship. He is a Fellow and Distinguished Lecturer of IEEE and was recognized as one of the top 10 authors in the 50-year history of ISSCC.

Richard Redl

Diploma in Telecommunications Engineering in 1969, and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering in 1973, both from the Technical University of Budapest, Hungary.  Since 1990 he has been a consultant in Switzerland, specializing in power electronics.  He holds three Hungarian and nineteen U.S. patents, has written over hundred technical papers, and is a co-author of a book on dynamic analysis of power converters.  Dr. Redl is a Fellow of the IEEE.

Pankaj Rohatgi

Dr. Rohatgi, is currently Technical Director, Hardware Security Solutions at Cryptography Research. From Aug 1996- July 2009, Dr. Rohatgi was a Research Staff Member at IBM's T. J. Watson Research Center where he also managed the Information Security Group. He received his Ph.D. from Cornell University in 1994. From 1993 to 1996 he was the security architect for the OpenTV operating system at Thomson R&D labs and at a Thomson/Sun Microsystems joint venture. Dr. Rohatgi has conducted basic research in several areas of applied cryptography, system and network security, privacy and secure hardware. He also worked and consulted on several security and cryptographic products. His research interests include side-channel cryptanalysis, applied cryptography, network and systems security and embedded systems. He has published over 40 technical articles and holds several patents and has been awarded two Outstanding Innovation Awards by IBM for his contributions to Side Channel Analysis and to the Security of IBM's System S. His professional activities include active participation in the W3C DSIG Initiative, the IRTF SmuG working group and the IETF MSEC Working Group and in the CHES and WISA program committees. He was the guest editor of IEEE Internet Computing magazine's special issue on Homeland Security and the Program co-Chair of CHES 2008. He is currently serving on the CHES Steering Committee.

Willy Sansen

Prof. Willy Sansen has an MSc Degree from the K.U.Leuven and a PhD degree from the University of California, Berkeley in 1972. Since 1980 he has been full professor at the Catholic University of Leuven, in Belgium, where he has headed the ESAT-MICAS laboratory on analog design since 1984. He has been supervisor of sixty-three PhD theses and has authored and coauthored more than 635 publications and sixteen books, among which “Analog Design Essentials” (Springer 2008). He is a Fellow of the IEEE. He was program chair of the ISSCC-2002 conference and is now Past-President of the IEEE Solid-State Circuits.

Werner Schindler

Werner Schindler is experienced in several fields of IT security, notably in cryptography, side-channel analysis, and random number generators; he has been active in these fields for 17 years. He obtained a master's degree in mathematics (Diplom-Mathematiker) 1989, a doctorate in mathematics (Dr. rer. nat.) 1991, and a postdoctoral lecture qualification for mathematics (Habilitation im Fach Mathematik) 1998, all at Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany. Since 1993 he is employed at the Bundesamt für Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik (BSI) (Federal Office for Information Security), Bonn, Germany. Since 2005 he is an Adjunct Professor of Mathematics (außerplanmäßiger Professor) at the Darmstadt University of Technology, and since 2009 he is head of the research group CASCADE (Constructive Attacks | Side-Channel Analysis | Secure Design) at CASED (Center for Advanced Security Research Darmstadt). He is a co-founder of the international workshop COSADE and has more than 60 scientific publications. He is editor, respectively, co-editor of the mathematical-technical references of two evaluation guidelines for random number generators, AIS 20 and AIS 31. These guidelines are effective in the German Common Criteria evaluation and certification scheme.

Timothy J. Schmerbeck

Timothy Schmerbeck is a Senior Technical Staff Member on the Integrated Circuit (IC) development team in IBM's Technology Development Group at Rochester, Minnesota. He has 34 years of experience designing IC's. He received bachelor's, and master's degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Minnesota, Institute of Technology, in 1977 & 1985 respectively. His graduate work dealt with the design of a hybrid, integrated, analog signal processor IC for disk drive servo systems. He joined the Integrated Circuit (IC) design group at IBM in Rochester, MN in 1977 where he spent roughly 25 years working on virtually every aspect of analog and digital IC design & development for storage, communications, and computer systems. He has specialized in mixed analog and digital IC designs and has been teaching on the subject of IC signal integrity at seminars, worldwide, for two decades. Those seminars have influenced the development of the only chip substrate signal integrity analysis CAD on the market today. He has been given numerous IBM corporate and division awards and corporate honors including the title of Master Inventor. Since the acquisition of the IBM optical communications group by JDS Uniphase in December 2001, he spent three years designing 1 to 10 GHz optical transceiver ICs, until returning to IBM in late 2004. He has been involved with IEEE since 1975 when he was treasurer of the University of Minnesota student chapter. He has authored and contributed to numerous technical publications, conference presentations, panel sessions, tutorials, workshops, books, college courses, and holds many patents in IC design. In his spare time he studies theology and enjoys contemplating the works of the greatest engineer.

Richard Schreier

Richard Schreier received a Ph.D. degree from the University of Toronto in 1991. From 1985 to 1987 he worked for Bell-Northern Research in Ottawa, Canada, and from 1991 to 1997 he was an Assistant/Associate Professor at Oregon State University in Corvallis. He has been working for Analog Devices, Inc. since 1997, spending 10 years in Wilmington, Massachusetts before relocating to Toronto, Canada. He was named a Fellow of Analog Devices in 2009. He and G. C. Temes wrote "Understanding Delta-Sigma Data Converters" which was published in 2004. Dr. Schreier is also the author of the freeware Delta-Sigma Toolbox for Matlab(R).

Francois-Xavier Standaert

Francois-Xavier Standaert was born in Brussels, Belgium in 1978. He received the Electrical Engineering degree and PhD degree from the Universite Catholique de Louvain, respectively in June 2001 and June 2004. In 2004-2005, he was a Fulbright visiting researcher at Columbia University, Department of Computer Science, Network Security Lab (September 04 to February 05) and at the MIT Medialab, Center for Bits and Atoms (February 05 to July 05). He is now a post-doctaral researcher at the UCL Crypto Group. His research interest includes digital electronics and FPGAs, cryptographic hardware, design of cryptographic primitives and side-channel analysis with a particular focus on the combination of (possibly provable) physical security and efficiency for actual cryptographic devices.

Jesper Steensgaard

MSEE (1994) Ph.D. (1999) both from the Technical University of Denmark. Assistant Professor at Columbia University (2000-2001). In 2001 he founded ESION LLC developing technology, intellectual property, and providing consulting services in several fields, including delta-sigma data converters, low-noise/low-power circuits, and medical applications. Since 2007 he has been with Linear Technology (data converters). He holds 10 patents.

Michiel Steyaert

Received his Ph.D. degree in electronics from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KUL) in June 1987. In 1988 he was an associated assistant professor at the U.C.L.A. From 1989 he joined the ESAT-MICAS group at the KUL, were he is now a Full Professor. His current research interests are in analog integrated circuits for high-frequency telecommunication systems and high performance analog signal processing. He authored or co-authored over 250 papers and co-authored over 5 books. He received the 1990 European Solid-State Circuits Conference Best Paper Award, the 1995 and 1997 ISSCC Evening Session Award, the 1999 IEEE Circuit and Systems Society Guillemin-Cauer Award and the 1991 NFWO Alcatel-Bell-Telephone award for innovative work in integrated circuits for telecommunications.

Thomas Szepesi

Ph.D., Tech. University of Budapest, 1980. He is currently a consultant in the power management IC area. Previously he was Vice President of Engineering at iWatt Inc., a start-up company, specializing in digital controller ICs of power converters, in Los Gatos, California. From 1994 to 2002 he was Product Line Director of Power Management Products at Analog Devices, Inc. From 1981 to 1994 he was with National Semiconductor Inc., where he was involved with the application and design of integrated circuits in the power management area. He holds 20 patents US patents and has published over a dozen papers in the power management field. He has served for three years on the ISSCC analog program subcommittee.

Andrew Teetzel

Received his BSEE and MSEE degrees from Purdue University and University of Illinois, respectively. Prior to starting Linear Radio Company, he spent 24 years as an engineer/scientist at Hewlett-Packard and Agilent Technologies designing broadband microwave power amplifiers, broadband IQ modulators/ demodulators, and bandpass delta-sigma ADCs, all in compound semiconductor FET and HBT technologies. He has authored several papers and holds two patents on IQ modulators.

Gabor Temes

Ph.D., University of Ottawa, 1961. Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Oregon State University, Professor Emeritus, UCLA. Formerly with UCLA, Ampex Corp., Stanford University and BNR. Life Fellow IEEE. He wrote many books and papers on circuit design and data converters. He received the Technical Achievement Award and the Education Award of the IEEE CAS Society, as well as the IEEE Centennial Medal. He is also the recipient of the 1998 IEEE Graduate Teaching Award and received the IEEE Millennium Medal and the IEEE/CAS Golden Jubilee Medal in 2000. the IEEE Gustav Robert Kirchhoff Award in 2006, and the IEEE Mac Van Valkenburg Award in 2009.

Elena Trichina

After having received PhD in Computer Science from the Computing Center of the Siberian Division of USSR Academy of Science for a theoretical work in a classical automata theory, Elena moved to practical design of software for parallel and distributed computer systems. Looking for a suitable application to test her formal method to parallel program development, she came across modular exponentiation on long integers, a basis of RSA. From this point on, her research and development activities were focused on secure and efficient implementation of cryptographic algorithms for embedded systems and on side channel and fault attacks. She has a dozen of patents in this area as well as academic publications, among them papers in CHES and FDTC workshops. Elena had a long and fulfilling career in both, academia and industry. She had academic positions from Lecture to Professor and Chair in the universities in Australia, New Zealand and Finland. Being a consultant to companies such as Gemplus (now Gemalto), Samsung and AMD, she was involved in design of cryptographic accelerators for both, secret key and public key computations. Currently Elena is working full time for Nagra, a Swiss company which provides conditional access solutions to TV operators all over the world.

Ingrid Verbauwhede

Ph.D., 1991, KU Leuven, Belgium. Formerly associate professor at UCLA, she is now Professor at the Faculty of Engineering (ESAT) of KU Leuven, Belgium. Her main interests are in architecture design together with design methods for domain specific processors. More specifically, she interested in the design of processors for applications that require very high throughput or very low power and that cannot be addressed by general purpose solutions. Examples are wireless communications and cryptography. She has built processors for each of these application domains.

Maarten Vertregt

Received the M.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Twente (UT), Enschede (The Netherlands). He joined Philips Research in 1985. He worked on the design of 1Mbit and 4Mbit SRAM memories, and subsequently on A/D conversion with embedded signal processing. Since 1996 he coordinates the design activities for high speed A/D and D/A conversion functions within the Mixed-Signal Circuits and Systems group of Philips Research. Presently he is a senior principal in the Research department (Corporate Innovation and Technology) of NXP Semiconductors. His research interests are with the migration of signal processing from the analog domain to the digital domain to cope with new system demands, in combination with scaling to nanometer-CMOS process technology. He was plenary invited speaker on analog scalability at the 2004 ESSCIRC/ESSDERC and 2006 IEDM conferences. He authored and co-authored over 20 publications and 9 patents.

Eric Vittoz

Ph.D., Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, Switzerland (EPFL), 1969. He was engaged in the early developments of electronic watches since 1962 in CEH, where he was appointed Vice-Director in 1971. Since 1984, he has been with CSEM (Swiss Center of Electronics and Microtechnology) were he was Executive Vice-President, Advanced Micro-electronics until 1999. He is now fully retired from CSEM where he held the position of Chief Scientist. He is also professor at EPFL, has authored or co-authored more than 130 papers on low power, analog design, and analog VLSI computation, and holds 26 patents. A Life Fellow of IEEE, he is the recipient of the 2004 IEEE Solid-State Circuits Field Award.